SeattleC Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Art of Almost is the best opener I've heard on an album in a very long time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
welch79 Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 i love open mind agreed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lynch Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Art Of Almost reminds of the first time I heard I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, right after buying Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I remember thinking as the song started "I am hearing something really special here". Really enjoyed the first listen through. Thanks again Wilco!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Glenn's drum beat on AoA is sick. It's so good there's no way it can be legal. I haven't even paid any attention to it yet because John's bass is still hogging all of my attention. Best Wilco bass ever? Maybe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Via Harvard Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Sunday Morning is such a great listen, I love it so much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Al.Ducts Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Capitol City is fantastic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wilconut Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Just finished my first listen. It's a confounding record, to be sure, that I think will reveal itself over the next few listens. Which is to say I dig it. It's challenging. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
knotgreen Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 A 1st attempt at 'Sunday Morning' lyrics: This is how I tell it, oh but it’s longOne Sunday Morning, oh the sun is gone (?? Silhouette dawning), over the seaMy father said what I had become, no one should be Outside I look lived in, like the -- in a shrineHow am I forgiven? Oh I get time This I learned without warning,Holding my browIn time you thought I would kill himOh but I didn’t know how I said it’s your god I don’t believe inNo, your bible can’t be trueKnocked down by the limelightHe cried I fear what’s for you I can hear those bellsSpoken at dawnI feel relief, I feel wellNow he knows he was wrong Bring ‘em cold for my fatherFrozen undergroundJesus, I wouldn’t botherHe belongs to me now Something sad keeps movingSo I wander aroundI fell in love with the burdenHolding me down Bless my mind I missBeing told how to liveBut I learned without knowingHow much more I owe than I can give This is how I tell it, oh but it’s longOne Sunday morning, one sun is gone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shakespeare In The Alley Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I wouldn't say it's challenging at all. It's very good, but definitely leans heavily on deliberate poppiness for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Okay, I'm positive that there was a "contact me for a rip" post in this thread, but now I can't find it... Bueller? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheMaker Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I wouldn't say it's challenging at all. It's very good, but definitely leans heavily on deliberate poppiness for me. Yeah, I don't think it's challenging either. As excellent as it is in places, a lot of it is built around the kind of complacent approach to songwriting and recording that's kept me from being a regular on this board since SBS came out. Would anybody really give a crap about songs like Standing O or Born Alone if Wilco hadn't signed their name to them? I know I don't, and I already like the band... I think what makes the record work so well at its best is that it's fussy, in a way that Wilco hasn't been fussy since the YHF/AGIB days. The arrangements of songs like the long closer and the brilliant opener feel like countries to be explored, and the textures and flourishes aren't just there for their own sake but for the sake of the songs. I can already see myself making my own mix of this record like I did for the last two, dropping all the crap like Open Mind and Standing O and getting right to the good stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ye dewy eyed few Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 agreed. lets agree to agree. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radiowilco Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Have gone through the record twice now -- mostly, I really dig it! The song sequence felt good during the second listen -- Art of Almost, Capital City and Black Moon are great. One Sunday Morning is epic in the same sense that Remember Mtn. Bed is... So psyched to see a good chunk of these songs in Boston and Montreal very soon! But first, I am gonna check out Pearl Jam in Montreal this coming week... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhino4evr Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 I have a webrip. Havent heard it yet though... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radiowilco Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Oh yeah -- there is a Web Rip on Waffles... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hazel Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Sunday Morning is such a great listen, I love it so much. im literally in love with this song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 What a journey...it's a helluva long way from A.M. to "The Art of Almost". The breadth of the musical styles and textures on this record are absolutely amazing. Epic? Epic. I wouldn't say it's challenging at all. It's very good, but definitely leans heavily on deliberate poppiness for me. Yeah...very band has extremes going from "Art of Almost" to "One Sunday Morning". Meh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 What a journey...it's a helluva long way from A.M. to "The Art of Almost". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobfrombob Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Why won't it play for me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pricklygirl Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Swoon! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamradio Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 meh Just kidding.. I'm with Crow.. This album just might be epic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hazel Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 i love that there is a song titled 'sunloathe' and i love the song. i too loathe the sun quite often. tweedy is genius. this album is genius. wilco is genius! i love you, wilco. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest McGuffin Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 First of all, I like how the record spins and has four sides, but why is it spinning at what appears to be 78 rpm? I was shocked and floored at the opener. It's their best opener since I Am Trying and, like others have said, is a bit Radiohead. It also reminds me a bit of Breaking Into Heaven by Stone Roses as far as feel and how it progresses but not in sound, if that makes sense. Best track on the album for me by far. Again, this record, just like the last two, has a big time let down right in the middle and toward the end after Dawned on Me. Maybe these tracks will grow like Hell is Chrome did into the mofo that it is now. Who knows? But for now, Black Moon, Born Alone, Capital City, Standing O (to a point) and Red Lung don't do much for me. Whole Love and One Sunday then have a lot of weight to carry to pick up the album, and they ultimately do, sort of like Everlasting did on WTA. I can't see this growing for me into a YHF because those middle tracks won't likely ever do it for me. Still, I'm pretty impressed with the first four tunes and think the final two will grow into epics. That's still a half good, half not so good album, as were SBS and WTA for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
D. Boon Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Can anyone explain what/where this "waffles" site is? Is that some sort of code only the cool kids know? Or is it an invite-only thing? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
howdjadoo Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 How many newbies since today and as to be expected? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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